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Lisbeth

Mrs. Everything

A Novel

By:
Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by:
Ari Graynor,
Beth Malone

Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,731

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,511

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,496

From Jennifer Weiner, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes comes a smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters’ lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places - and be true to themselves - in a rapidly evolving world. Mrs. Everything is an ambitious, richly textured journey through history - and herstory - as these two sisters navigate a changing America over the course of their lives.

5 out of 5 stars

Beautiful Story and Beautifully Written

Beautiful Book

Overall

5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-01-19

I loved this book. The story was believable and the "times" were socially accurate. The characters were both imperfect and easy to relate to and, rarest of all, the narration was fantastic. I highly recommend this book, especially to sisters.

The Survivors

By:
Kate Furnivall

Narrated by:
Imogen Church

Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
92

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
83

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
83

Germany, 1945. Klara Janowska and her daughter, Alicja, have walked for weeks to get to Graufeld Displaced Persons camp. In the cramped, dirty, dangerous conditions they, along with 3,200 others, are the lucky ones. They have survived and will do anything to find a way back home. But when Klara recognises a man in the camp from her past, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins. He knows exactly what she did during the war to save her daughter. She knows his real identity. What will be the price of silence? And will either make it out of the camp alive?

5 out of 5 stars

Top, top novel

Give up

Overall

2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 02-25-19

I gave up on this one after a decent three hours effort. The story never stopped dragging along and the characters were uninteresting overall. The idea was good but it just never seen to find direction. Life is too short.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Social Creature

A Novel

By:
Tara Isabella Burton

Narrated by:
Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
186

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
171

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
175

They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them.... They drink, and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers - to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste.... Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship.

An uncomfortable listen

Not great but very hard to put down

This book was compulsively readable (actually I listened to it). But there were too many loose ends and an unsatisfactory ending to give it 5 stars. The narrator was outstanding!

Testimony

A Novel

By:
Anita Shreve

Narrated by:
Robert Petkoff,
Eve Bianco,
Ellen Archer

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
602

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
418

Story

4 out of 5 stars
423

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices - those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal - that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.

4 out of 5 stars

Required Reading

Distracting, unconvincing narration

Overall

2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-04-18

This book may have been better if I had not listened to it. The voices were so dramatic and overdone that it just seemed like a conglomeration of ludicrous voices. I couldn't connect with the characters because the hamfist ed "cast" screamed at the reader how they should be perceived. I like to make these decisions myself. I never knew when a different voice would suddenly pop up in a dialog and the teenager voices were, well, not researched well. The bad were soooooo bad and the good were soooo good. I really hope Anita Shreve has not gone the way of Anne Rivera Siddons, among other gifted writers, who went down a rabbit hole later in their career.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

He Will Be My Ruin

By:
K. A. Tucker

Narrated by:
Kate Rudd,
Olivia Song

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,133

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,042

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,044

Twenty-eight-year-old Maggie Sparkes arrives in New York City to pack up what's left of her best friend's belongings after a suicide that has left everyone stunned. The police have deemed the evidence conclusive: Celine got into bed, downed a bottle of Xanax and a handle of Maker's Mark, and never woke up. But when Maggie discovers secrets in the childhood lockbox hidden in Celine's apartment, she begins asking questions. Questions about the man Celine fell in love with.

4 out of 5 stars

Whew! Now I remember why I like mysteries!

Too long

Overall

2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 06-25-18

This book lacked the material to justify its lenghiness. There just wasn't enough interesting stuff. And the diary of the dead person continued to have content even after she died, which made the whole thing even less plausible than it already was. Narration was decent but few if any of the characters were likable or had depth, particularly Maggie. Not very good.

The Woman in the Window

A Novel

By:
A. J. Finn

Narrated by:
Ann Marie Lee

Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
23,838

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
21,896

Story

4 out of 5 stars
21,850

Anna Fox lives alone - a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times...and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble. And its shocking secrets are laid bare.

2 out of 5 stars

An excruciating listen.

Seems Neverending

Overall

1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-27-18

I am on chapter 17 and don't know if I will continue. The protagonist is difficult to connect with and no character is interesting so far. The narrator reads in a sardonic, flippant tone which belies the gravity of the circumstances. I may skip to the end to find out what the implausible ending is about. Probably not, though. I'd rather return it.

The Wife Between Us

By:
Greer Hendricks,
Sarah Pekkanen

Narrated by:
Julia Whelan

Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
27,336

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
25,026

Story

4 out of 5 stars
24,991

When you listen to this audiobook, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are listening to a story about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling,
The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage - and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.

5 out of 5 stars

NOT that confusing! Gone Girl + Last Mrs. Parrish

Great audiobook!

Overall

4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-04-18

The narration was very good and the story was great. But it was a little confusing sometimes. If I were reading it on Kindle, it would have been easier to go back, but not so much with audio. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it very much.

0 of 1 people found this review helpful

The Member of the Wedding

By:
Carson McCullers

Narrated by:
Susan Sarandon

Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
879

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
799

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
797

The best way to experience this classic of the American South is by joining five-time Academy Award nominee and Best Actress winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking, Thelma & Louise) as she guides the listener on a journey through the anguish of adolescence and isolation.

It's a Classic People

Wonderful

This book was as I remembered it from years ago. Touching , humorous, and beautifully written, it was narrated perfectly by Susan Sarandon. I highly recommend it.

Country of Ash

A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945

By:
Edward Reicher,
Magda Bogin (translator)

Narrated by:
Suzanne Toren,
Robert Blumenfeld

Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
75

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
68

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
68

Country of Ash is the starkly compelling, original chronicle of a Jewish doctor who miraculously survived near-certain death, first inside the Lodz and Warsaw ghettoes, where he was forced to treat the Gestapo, then on the Aryan side of Warsaw, where he hid under numerous disguises. He clandestinely recorded the terrible events he witnessed, but his manuscript disappeared during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war, reunited with his wife and young daughter, he rewrote his story.

Couldn't stop listening

This tragic story gave a a unique view of life in Warsaw during WW2 for Jewish people. Dr. Reicher was a wonderful and fascinating person. The narration could not have been better!

Lucky

A Memoir

By:
Alice Sebold

Narrated by:
Alice Sebold

Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
626

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
376

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
372

In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold (
The Lovely Bones) reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an 18-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles for understanding; as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction.

3 out of 5 stars

GREAT BOOK! Really bad narrating.

Tedious

Overall

3 out of 5 stars

Performance

3 out of 5 stars

Story

3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-03-17

This was a powerful story with important ramifications. There was just too much of it. Detail after detail grew tedious and literally lost me by the end. I will add my favorite admonishment... Please, authors, DON'T narrate your own books. It is almost never an asset and in this case Alice Sebolt's narration made the main character (herself!) someone the reader could empathize with but not really like nor dislike all that much. However, I greatly respected and appreciated her addendum at the end about our current political situation. I will only say one word about the clown in office and I got it from his own hideous tweets. Sad.